Nice, simple app
The thing I like most about this app is it simplicity. It does what it is supposed to do with no bells or whistles. It is supposed break up your work time into chunks of your own devising. When the timer goes off it's time for a short break. You can set the length of the break time as well. You get up and stretch or exercise or do whatever and then you get back to work. This is a great health enhancing app And it is one of my favorites.
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almost what I need
I was super excited when I found this app because it’s exactly what I’m looking for. I want to choose how long the sessions are, and the short and long breaks, and I don’t need any fancy extra stuff cluttering the main screen. The only problem is that the notifications don’t work! Yeah, they show up on my home screen, but I have all the sound and vibration settings on (both the app and my phone and watch settings) and yet nothing’s happening. If it would just vibrate my watch when a session or break ends, this would be awesome.
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Watch app needs work
The phone app is fine - simple, easy to navigate and set up. The watch app is a different story. It works for a period of time and then just stops. I’ll press “continue” after a work session and it won’t connect with the phone app to start the next break. Which is a key reason I want to use it. I’ve had this happen about 3 weeks ago, and then deleted and reinstalled the app. Unfortunately the same thing keeps happening. If this bug can be fixed, the app is quite useful.
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Nice and clean but missing a feature I needed
Love the simplicity of the app but sadly it had one major miss for me: the ability to disable auto-start on the breaks and timers. You can manually pause them, but if I'm trying to finish my train of thought before I take a break, I don't want to interrupt myself by having to reach over to pause the break timer. If that feature were added, I'd re-download in a heartbeat!
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Love it
I’ve tried so many apps to keep track of how I long to study and this one is the best! So simple
to change study length and study breaks time.
to change study length and study breaks time.
Just a couple problems
Pleeease fix these bugs. They’re driving me crazy.
I’ve loved this app for years - I used it to stay focused studying in college, and I now use it while I’m working. It’s very simple and overall functional. I just have three issues.
1. The app for the Apple Watch NEVER gives me alerts when the timer’s done. I’ll be working and go over my work timer (but I don’t know it because it hasn’t made a noise), and I eventually realize it’s been a while, turn my watch to look at it, and the screen lights up and the timer goes off. So the watch version is effectively useless. I’ve messed with lots of settings for alarms, and I know my sound is on, etc. It just doesn’t work.
2. The phone app does give me alerts, but they’re always wrong if I’m not currently on the app. Just now I was on a different app on my phone when the work timer supposedly finished, so it beeped and the banner alert showed up. I tapped on it, only to find out I actually had over 11 minutes left on the timer. Why did it alert me that it was done? It wasn’t??
3. Sometimes, the timer cycle just stops running. Just now, I started my work timer, then switched to messages and the camera a couple times, then went back to the timer and it had stopped completely and went back to displaying the initial time of 30 minutes. No reason. No alert. It's so annoying, and it totally throws off the work-break cycle I was on.
So, basically, the app is most useful when I leave my phone open where I can look at the timer. Please fix these issues!!
I’ve loved this app for years - I used it to stay focused studying in college, and I now use it while I’m working. It’s very simple and overall functional. I just have three issues.
1. The app for the Apple Watch NEVER gives me alerts when the timer’s done. I’ll be working and go over my work timer (but I don’t know it because it hasn’t made a noise), and I eventually realize it’s been a while, turn my watch to look at it, and the screen lights up and the timer goes off. So the watch version is effectively useless. I’ve messed with lots of settings for alarms, and I know my sound is on, etc. It just doesn’t work.
2. The phone app does give me alerts, but they’re always wrong if I’m not currently on the app. Just now I was on a different app on my phone when the work timer supposedly finished, so it beeped and the banner alert showed up. I tapped on it, only to find out I actually had over 11 minutes left on the timer. Why did it alert me that it was done? It wasn’t??
3. Sometimes, the timer cycle just stops running. Just now, I started my work timer, then switched to messages and the camera a couple times, then went back to the timer and it had stopped completely and went back to displaying the initial time of 30 minutes. No reason. No alert. It's so annoying, and it totally throws off the work-break cycle I was on.
So, basically, the app is most useful when I leave my phone open where I can look at the timer. Please fix these issues!!
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Not Fit For Purpose
Nice idea, timer worked for a while even when phone was locked but reset itself within the last 10 mins or so. Doesn’t do what it’s supposed to so cannot recommend, but interface and layout is nice
Mary
It helps me to have a break and work on
Can you lower the interval to 20 seconds?
Hi developer, thank you for this great app.
I want use this app for my eye, 20 min work-20 seconds rest. Mind lower the limit in rest time? Thanks in advance
I want use this app for my eye, 20 min work-20 seconds rest. Mind lower the limit in rest time? Thanks in advance
Simple and attractive
Nice no-frills pomodoro timer with an attractive interface. Exactly what I was after
Good concept, doesn’t work properly
It’s a good concept but the timer doesn’t go off when my phone goes to sleep. I just use my clock timer now.
I would pay to take away the ads.
The app is great- I don’t need stats, just a Pomodoro timer with options, that doesn’t penalize me for looking at the timer. That said, I would be willing to pay to remove the ads. I have to hide the bottom half of my phone to not be distracted by them- bad for an app meant to help with focus.
Great
Please add allow the app to turn both directions instead of just vertical
What’s up with the adds?
Why is there no option to opt out of the adds? This app is supposed to help you concentrate but you can’t do that with the lower banner with adds.
Great app! Although...
Bug: do not let phone go off, will mess with transitions between work and break.
Ads
This app is ad-supported. The author should state this in the description.
Widget for Apple Watch?
Would be great if you added a little widget so I can see this on the home screen of my Apple Watch!
Not a very good watch app
I wanted to like this, but it's very clear that the app's priority is the phone app, not the watch part, which makes it less than useful for me.
There is a watch app, and it kinda works, but it's just missing too much. What's missing includes
- no complication
- no integration with Siri (and specifically the Siri watch face)
- no notification that break times are over
It's OK if you insist on a free app: attractive, apparently bugfree, does what it promises. But I'm willing to pay real money to have an app that delivers a much better watch experience.
There is a watch app, and it kinda works, but it's just missing too much. What's missing includes
- no complication
- no integration with Siri (and specifically the Siri watch face)
- no notification that break times are over
It's OK if you insist on a free app: attractive, apparently bugfree, does what it promises. But I'm willing to pay real money to have an app that delivers a much better watch experience.
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Nothing fancy, just a streamlined timer app.
Does what it says it will, nothing extra. I appreciate that you don’t have to pay to literally use a timer like other apps.
Perfect
The simplicity and ease of use is great. Exactly what I’m looking for in a Pomodoro timer. I would just love the ability to remove ads.
